“…As the gender orders prevailing in a given society (Connell, 2002;Williams, 1995a) influence these dynamics, they reinforce asymmetries (i.e., gender regimes) in organizations. The health sector is a gendered organizational structure (Doyal, 2001;Riska, 1993), as international (e.g., Lapeyre & Le Feuvre, 2005;Linehan et al, 2013;Rosende, 2008;Williams, 1995a) and Portuguese research findings (e.g., Fernandes Perelman, & Mateus, 2010;Laranjeira, Marques, Soares, & Prazeres, 2008;Marques, 2011) have demonstrated in the cases of both nursing and the medical field in general. This health gendering may shape not only choices of specialty and other career opportunities, but also the relationship between health professionals and clinical practice (Fernandes et al, 2010) Furthermore the symbolic asymmetry theory (e.g., Amâncio, 1997;Amâncio & Oliveira, 2006) allows us to think that in masculine professions such as medicine, the perception of men as distinctive individuals would be confounded with the model of professional, while women would be seen as an undifferentiated category based on sex, representing the other, thus contributing to maintain men's dominant position.…”